The day the laughter stopped: the true story of Fatty Arbuckle de Yallop, David A - 1976

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1976 The True Story of Fatty Arbuckle. Includes Fatty Arbuckle filmography, plus bibliography and detailed index. Account of the sensational early-1920s rape and murder case involving Hollywood comedy star Fatty Arbuckle. ".But one day in September, 1921, all of the laughter stopped. Overnight what had been innocent fun was suddenly being denounced as 'another Hollywood drunken orgy' or 'one more shocking example of sex depravity.' The day our laughter stopped was the day that Roscoe Arbuckle was accused of having caused the death of Virginia Rappe." ---- 350 pages with index, b/w photographs and diagram of the death scene on the end papers Size: Approx 6" Wide and 9½" Tall

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 348 pages; Description: viii, 348 p. , [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index. Filmography: p. 305-327. Bibliography: p. 331-337. Subjects: Arbuckle, Roscoe (1887-1933) .

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 348 pages; Description: viii, 348 p. , [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Arbuckle, Roscoe, 1887-1933 -- Biography. The sad story of how one of the top comics in the silent movies, he could throw a pie like no one else, he Was the Keystone Kops, he Was Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle. He was also the scapegoat for the ills and depravity of Hollywood, and charged with the rape and death of a film actress in a week long party in the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, acquitted, but blackballed for the sins of Hollywood. With an all star cast of Hollywood of it's day, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, William Randolph Hearst, Buster Keaton, Jesse Lasky, Adolph Zukor, Will Hays, etc., and the heads of the studios. A fascinating look at Hollywood, illustrated… Leer más